Has Harry Seen the Worst Already?

Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer pennylin at swbell.net
Wed Jan 31 03:57:26 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 11296

Hi --

naama_gat at hotmail.com wrote:

> As to the scene in the graveyard - horrible things will happen now
> that V. has risen again, and at a much higher frequency. However, I
> still feel that Harry has, personally, gone through the worst thing
> he has and will experience. *Nothing* could be worse than that
> horrible spell. Seeing V. as the monstrous child, having his blood
> "taken forcibly", watching Wormtail cut off his own hand, and, horror
> of horrors - seeing V. rise again. And all the while - tied up,
> helpless, knowing that he is going to die by V. hands, the same
> person who muredered his parents, and be fed to his snake. Jeez. I
> shouldn't at all wonder if he will start getting flashbacks several
> years hence.

I just think that if the books are going to get darker (they are per
JKR) and there will be more deaths, likely deaths that will affect the
fans more than Cedric's death did (again, per JKR), we (and Harry) can't
have seen the worst of it yet.  I don't see Book 4 as the crest and it
will be downhill from here.  I see it more as continuing to escalate in
intensity and darkness, probably not falling off in tone until the very
end of Book 7.

I agree that the Graveyard scene was *horrible,* but I still wouldn't
place a bet on it being the worst thing in a 7-book series (with 3 more
books yet to come).

Penny



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